Suggesting such hostility is not in “the spirit of America,” O’Reilly insisted the proposed protest is all about DeGeneres.

“If you remember with the McCarthy era of the 1950s and they were trying to hunt down communist sympathizers and not let them work and put them on a blacklist…what is the difference between the McCarthy era of the ’50s and the Million Moms saying, ‘Hey, JCPenney and all you other stores, don’t you hire gay people. Don’t you dare.’ What’s the difference?”